‘Vote loot’: Cong demands total re-polling in Nandigram, Rejinagar over irregularities

KOLKATA: The Bengal Congress on Tuesday demanded fresh polling in the Nandigram and Rejinagar assembly constituencies, alleging intimidation of voters, removal of its polling agents and widespread electoral malpractice during the bypolls.State Congress president Subhankar Sarkar alleged that party agents had been forcibly removed from polling booths in Rejinagar and claimed that several booths in Nandigram had been “captured” by workers of the ruling BJP.The Congress’s Rejinagar candidate Mohammad Abdullahil Kafi staged a sit-in outside the local police station, seeking cancellation of the polling and fresh elections, Sarkar said at a press conference at the party’s state headquarters, Bidhan Bhavan, in Kolkata.“Our Rejinagar candidate has begun a sit-in before the local PS protesting the forcible eviction of our agents from over a hundred booths in that constituency.